Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Characters: Bres and Mab
Date/Time: Oct 31, late afternoon
Location: Rose Garden
Rating: TBD
Warnings: Snark.
Summary: Halloween time interactions with old-timey clothes!


She found little amusement in her forced choice of clothing. However, after much diligence she'd discovered something that she felt was passable. Feathers after all were a fraction more reliable than spider webbing.

And with her ill mood she'd taken herself away from the main house and come to the gardens. It was warm and bright and the flowers were in bloom. It did nothing to improve her temperament. In fact, the air in the small, almost secluded corner she'd come to, turned decidedly cooler, and the grass beneath her bare feet began sparkling with frost. She could admit quietly to herself that she reached out to coat a vibrant red rose in crystal clear ice purely out of spite, small as the revenge might be.

Comments

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

"Whatever for?"

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

"For just..being there," he manages. Was that genuine gratitude in his voice? Must be the wind.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She nodded in understanding. "You did as much for me. I could do no less by you."

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

"So..does this mean we go back to throwing witty one-liners back and forth at each other?"

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

"You'd rather we do something else?" The teasing tone was still in her voice.



((F*ing swype))

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

And for a short, but noticeable, time, Bres looks as if he did want something different.

"..why ruin a good thing," he said rhetorically.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She noticed, because as he had said earlier, very little escaped her. Even if he had been sarcastic at the time. It made her acutely aware that their hands were still entwined, though the need for it had long since passed. She staunchly avoided looking, keeping her features as even as possible. Though the lower timbre of her voice might give some of her thoughts away.

"Why indeed."

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

They had both seen a vulnerable side of each other now, and had both reacted with surprising care when the other was hurting. Was more possible? The tone of her voice... He decided a risk warranted.

"..do you remember the day you and I first met as mortals? We didn't even know who we ourselves were yet."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She did not groan at the topic, but she wanted to. "I do remember. Not my most glorious day, as I recall."

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

"Really? I remember you looking quite..lovely."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

Did he now? Well that was news. "I was referring to my behavior," she clarified.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

"Ooooh," he said in understanding. "Well..project of your environment?" he said, hazarding a guess.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

"Perhaps, but there are better ways to rebel than throwing oneself at attractive older men."

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

Bres shrugs. "Maybe, but I suppose there are also worse things you could have done." Wait... "Older? As I recall I was one of those men you threw yourself at."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She nodded. "And the only one to ever spurn my advance." She is very very carefully neutral about that statement.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

He's quiet at that for a moment. "I had a good reason for turning you down that night. What I saw..didn't feel real."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

"No?" Against her better judgement she was curious and pursuing the topic.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

Well, in for a penny...

"The past couple of years I've been able to, I suppose you could say, read people. The first manifestation of powers I suspect. Anyway, I admit when I first saw you I was..enchanted, but.." He pauses a moment before continuing. "When you spoke to me, I couldn't help but get this impression that you were, for lack of a better word, hiding yourself. That you were suppressing who you really were. I was interested, very, but I'm not the kind of man who pursues a woman merely because she is beautiful. I hoped perhaps some time down the road you would get past it and perhaps I could meet the real you."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

"And what do your powers tell you of me now?" The Fae in her told her not to ask, but the woman in her couldn't be denied her curiosity, though he might very well tell her that she was worse now than that first time. It could prove worth the risk.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

Part of him is urging him to be cautious..another is telling it to shut the hell up and keep going. He looks at her carefully.

"That the woman I see now is the one I wanted to know that night," he replied honestly.

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She was deeply touched by that statement. Touched and made a bit giddy. A feeling she hadn't experienced in well... years. Could he tell?

"I'm...glad I meet your approval." There was no sarcasm, not even a trace.

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

He smiles, genuinely. "You're welcome. I'm glad for the opportunity." He shakes his head and chuckles. "I must sound incredibly sappy."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She did not laugh, though she also didn't look unhappy. "No, not really."

[kingoftwoworlds.insanejournal.com]

"Mab..I don't presume anything from this. I'll continue to serve our cause faithfully and still provide as much snark as you'd like, but..it felt good to get that in the open."

[winter-queen.insanejournal.com]

She felt a twinge of disappointment, and it passed over her features briefly before she contained it behind a mask of mild amusement. "Well, they do say confession is good for the soul. Anything else you wish to unburden yourself of?"